Category Archives: audio sermons
April 16, 2017, Easter, The Weight of Heaven – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000019 There is a ridiculous, but sometimes very funny, BBC show from Scotland called Limmy’s world. And there is one short skit that begins with the narrator, Limmy, asking a question, “I have a question for you: which is heavier, a kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of …
April 15, 2017, Easter Vigil – From Stone to Flesh, A Transplant Story – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000018 One of the miracles of modern science that I am most thankful for is that some doctors and scientists somewhere discovered how to take a healthy human organ from one person’s body and to transplant it into another person whose organ is no longer able to function …
April 14, 2017, Good Friday. What’s So Good about It? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000017 Every Friday during the season of Lent, we come together and kneel at the altar rail to prepare our hearts for following the Stations of the Cross, from Jesus’ unjust condemnation at the hands of his own people, to his burial in the tomb of Joseph of …
April 13, 2017, People Who Serve People – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000016 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put …
April 2, 2017, Doubters Welcome – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000015 We have an image in our heads about what faith is supposed to look like. When we think of people with great faith, we picture giants of the faith like St. Francis or Charles Wesley from the past, or contemporary people like Billy Graham and Pope Francis. …
March 26, 2017, Which Blind Man? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000014 There are a lot of amazing stories of healing in the gospels, but the one we read this morning is a bit different. I say that because this story that John tells us about the man who was healed of his blindness isn’t mainly about the man …
March 19, 2017, Nobody Doesn’t Need to be Known – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000013 I want to start today with a story that happened just this past week, when I had the privilege of delivering a gift on behalf of our Women’s Guild. We had voted at our last meeting to help out a young family, a hard-working mother and father …
March 12, 2017, A Sermon on John 3:1-16 by Helen Harris
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000012 Today’s Gospel is the greatest known in the bible and most often preached. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. [Type a quote from the document or the summary of …
March 5, 2017, Lent 1, No Dirty Little Secrets – sermon by Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: My Mom was a good and truthful person, but I remember vividly one time that she told a lie – and not the fun, Santa Claus or surprise party kind of lie, but a real lie. I had gone with her in to the emergency room because she …
March 1, 2017, Ash Wednesday – It’s Quiet Out There – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Preachers and writers, people like me, are very fond of using the image of the desert when they talk about Lent. It’s a good image for several reasons. One reason is that the forty days of Lent remind us of the forty years the people of Israel spent …
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